Sykora has spent the past several years playing for Banska Bystrica in Slovakia. He scored 19 goals to go with 15 assists in 42 games this season.

Back in February, a North Dakota high school student pulled off a backhanded version and Mikael Granlund did it for the Finnish national team. University of Michigan player Mike Legg is one of the first players to have done it during the 1996 NCAA tournament.

Adam Gretz has been writing about the NHL and taking an analytical approach to the game since the start of the 2008 season. A member of the PHWA since 2015, he has spent more than three years covering...
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